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Hi -
Was it previously feasible just to directly open the DOE Commercial Reference Buildings from the 'templates' that used to ship with OpenStudio? Juxtaposing page 3 of the OpenStudio Basic Workflow Guide with the fact that others seem to have those models (https://unmethours.com/question/1305/zone-multipliers-in-openstudio/), it seems maybe so. However, it also seems that with the move from templates to the wizard for starting new .osm files in sketchup, the ability to open the commercial reference building models (if it existed) no longer exists. Am I wrong?
Given I don't have an .osm file, I'm trying to load the DOE commercial reference buildings in OpenStudio by importing the idf's from the DOE website. I was able to import the most recent (V 1.4_7.2) Large Office models using the OpenStudio Sketchup Plugin (Sketchup 14.1) and from there export to OpenStudio (using version 1.5 - i got errors using 1.4). For the large office building, there were about 4300 lines of code from the idf that were not imported via the plugin, instead being sent to an "untitled-untranslated.idf" file. I should also mention here that I had no luck directly importing the idf into OpenStudio.
i'm new to OpenStudio, but what mostly appears to be missing in the model is the mechanical systems, which seems pretty consistent with what's in the "untitled'-untranslated.idf" file. I'm not the first person to do this , so I'm basically wondering:
If there are not already OpenStudio versions of these models publicly available, does anyone have suggestions or a checklist for what needs to be done to build out the reference buildings, starting from the .osm files that can be created from the .idf files downloadable from DOE?
